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WikiProject France
Welcome to WikiProject France. We are a group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of France and Monaco related articles, through collaboration and cooperation. If you would like to join us, please add your username to the members list.
Scope
WikiProject France concerns coordination, creation, development, and organization of efforts on all articles related to France and Monaco.
Goals
- Get this project organized.
- To serve as a central point of discussion for collaboration related to France/Monaco. Foster increased cooperation between editors in order to meet the other goals.
- To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia of France/Monaco in the English language.
- Build all Top Importance France Articles to Good Article status, at a minimum (FA is preferred). Current progress: 7 out of 93 articles meet this criteria.
Departments
Departments
- Contents
- The contents department develops and maintains the navigation pages that serve the subject "France", in collaboration with the various contents projects (OOK, Lists, Wikipedia:WikiProject Glossaries, and Index).
- Assessment
- The assessment department assesses and tracks all project related articles. If you have made significant contributions to an article, feel free to list at this page.
- Categorisation
- The categorisation department works toward increasing organisation of the project via placing articles in correct categories.
- Cleanup
- This department focuses on the clean up and copy editing of articles tagged in need of attention.
- Outreach
- Discussion and implementation of outreach strategies, including discussion of the next newsletter.
- Photo requests
- Please add any requested photos to this list.
- Review Department
- The Review department aims to create a centralized area for all project-related articles currently undergoing either formal review (Good Article, Featured Article) or informal review (Wikiproject France Peer Review). This is the place to get information about listing an article for review.
Task forces
- French cinema task force
- Task force of WikiProject Films.
- French military history task force
- Task force of WikiProject Military history.
- Paris
- Task force aims to develop, maintain, and improve articles relating to the capital.
WikiProjects
- WikiProject Balzac
- Related WikiProject.
- WikiProject French communes
- Child WikiProject.
- WikiProject Monaco
- Related WikiProject.
Work groups
- Adelie Land work group
- Work group of WikiProject Antarctica.
- French Africa work group
- Work group of WikiProject Africa.
- French Guiana work group
- Work group of WikiProject South America.
- French Polynesia work group
- Work group of WikiProject Polynesia.
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon work group
- Work group of WikiProject Caribbean.
Article Alerts
- Proposed deletion
- 30 Nov 2009 – Eric Axelson (talk) has been deleted.
- 30 Nov 2009 – Mickaël Grondin (talk) proposed for deletion by Jogurney.
- 26 Nov 2009 – Ludovic Gamboa (talk) has been deleted.
- 21 Nov 2009 – Anthony Babikian (talk) has been deleted.
- 21 Nov 2009 – Sofiane Kheyari (talk) has been deleted.
- 21 Nov 2009 – Sofiane Mezraoui (talk) has been deleted.
- 20 Nov 2009 – Guillaume Lecacheur (talk) has been deleted.
- 20 Nov 2009 – Karim Haderbache (talk) has been deleted.
- Articles for deletion
- 25 Nov 2009 – Henri Lurie (talk) nominated for deletion by Scoop100; see discussion.
- 24 Nov 2009 – Edmond Huet (talk) nominated for deletion by Scoop100; see discussion.
- 22 Nov 2009 – Battles of macrohistorical importance involving invasions of Europe (talk) has been deleted; see discussion.
- Featured article candidates
- 25 Nov 2009 – Boletus edulis (talk) is nominated by Casliber.
- Featured list candidates
- 26 Nov 2009 – List of French Open Men's Singles champions (talk) is not promoted.
- Good article nominations
- 26 Nov 2009 – Battle of Carillon (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
- 25 Nov 2009 – Louis XVIII of France (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Laurinavicius.
- 25 Nov 2009 – Battle of Ostrach (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
- 19 Nov 2009 – Breton (horse) (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
- 18 Nov 2009 – Boletus edulis (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
- 5 Nov 2009 – World War II (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by NorwegianBlue (on hold); see discussion.
- 8 Oct 2009 – Army of the Danube (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Auntieruth55.
- 5 Oct 2009 – Erromintxela (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Akerbeltz (on hold); see discussion.
- 21 Sep 2009 – Henri-Georges Clouzot (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Andrzejbanas; see discussion.
- Requested moves
- 25 Nov 2009 – Move requested from Poteaux-sur-solle (talk) to Post-on-sill by Kevlar67; see discussion.
- Did you know
- 20 Nov 2009 – A fact from Église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Rouffach (talk) appeared on the main page.
- Bounty board
- 24 May 2009 – Bounty for bringing Albertville (talk) to FA status: $20 donation by Hektor.
- 8 Mar 2009 – Bounty for bringing World War I (talk) to FA status: US$250 donation by Roger Davies (expires on 31 December 2009).
- Other news
- 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details.
- 30 Nov 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
- 3 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.
- 19 Oct 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
- Archives
Quick Help
If you can help with any of these topics, please add your name to the third column
| I need help with | Try | Project Member Volunteers |
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| Copy-editing | League of Copyeditors | User:Mcewan, User:Fraise |
| Content dispute | Requesting for comments |
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| General Feedback | WikiProject France talk page |
Lazulilasher, |
| Getting around WikiProject France | WikiProject France talk page | |
| Images (uploading) | Wikimedia Commons | ChrisDHDR |
| Improving an article | Using the Reviewing Cheatsheet WikiProject France talk page |
Lazulilasher, User:Fraise |
| Vandalism | Administrator intervention against vandalism |
Style Guides
Do you need help with the proper format of France/French terms or translations? See the Manual of Style links below:
- General Rules
- Orthography, covers accents, ligatures, and sorting.
- Naming Conventions, including noble titles, works of art, and place names.
- Administrative Conventions, covers political and geographic divisions within France.
- Transportation Conventions, Rail/Tram naming and terms (inlcuding SNCF related guidelines)
Announcements and News
News
Wikipedia Release Version 0.7 will soon be ported to DVD. Some articles relating to the project were selected to appear. A number of articles have various clean-up tags, listed here. Please help out by addressing the concerns.
We are in the process of creating a new review department, in order to provide a central location for all France related reviews at Peer Review, Good Articles, or Featured Articles. The initiation of an A-class review departement has also been proposed.
Daft Punk became a Good Article.- Louvre Abu Dhabi became a Good Article.
The Project banner template has been updated with a parameter allowing articles within the scope of the Paris task force to be tagged as such. To tag an article, add |tf=Paris to the banner.
Open Reviews and Assessments
See the Review Department for discussion and full-listing of articles under review, or for information about listing an article for review. Please check the article alerts page for any unincorporated updates.
- Peer Reviews:
- Featured Article Review: French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools and Lazare Ponticelli were listed at Featured Article Review.
- Articles currently requesting assessment: Service France Domaine, please add this to the France Wikiproject and give an initial assessment.
- Articles for Deletion: Tanit (yacht) has been nominated for deletion or merger. Comments appreciated.
- Categories for Discussion: None listed
Open Tasks
- Place {{WikiProject France}} on the talk pages of all articles that fall within the scope of this project.
- Monitor the recent changes for improvements which might raise the assessment level, damages to the articles, and vandalism
- Respond and ameliorate articles listed for cleanup, copyediting, citations, references, orignial research, etc.
- Respond in your area of expertise to editor's requesting Reviews of the project's articles.
- The following articles are in need of expert attention, if you can provide this, please do:
- Maintain and update the Template:France tasks (after completing a task, please replace the old with a new one by editing this template):
Article Status
Current Article Statistics
| France articles |
Importance | ||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
| Quality | |||||||
 FA |
2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 32 | |
| FL |
1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
 A |
1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||
 GA |
3 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 34 | 71 | |
| B | 29 | 108 | 122 | 57 | 210 | 526 | |
| C | 21 | 50 | 96 | 60 | 144 | 371 | |
| Start | 8 | 114 | 350 | 819 | 3205 | 4496 | |
| Stub | 4 | 70 | 319 | 36008 | 13138 | 49539 | |
| List | 4 | 40 | 23 | 689 | 756 | ||
| Assessed | 68 | 362 | 949 | 36985 | 17433 | 55797 | |
| Unassessed | 3 | 7 | 5 | 119 | 12276 | 12410 | |
| Total | 71 | 369 | 954 | 37104 | 29709 | 68207 | |
Articles needing attention
See here for a complete list of France related articles that need attention. Please respond to these requests if you're able.
Featured Content
These Featured articles have been identified as among the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. They have not necessarily been improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject. These articles may be chosen as "Article of the month" or "Personality of the month" on the France portal.
The Featured images are chosen by the Wikipedia community because they are beautiful, shocking, impressive, and/or informative. France-related featured pictures can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject France/Gallery. Note: This list includes images from Commons.
A Featured topic is a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality (though are not necessarily featured articles). A featured topic represents Wikipedia’s best work by thoroughly covering all parts of that topic through several high-quality articles that share a similar structure and are well-linked with each other.
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Templates, Infoboxes, Userboxes, and Ads
Userboxes and medals
- Members can add one of the following userboxes to their userpage.
- There are at this time two barnstars, one for France and the other for French Guiana, which might be given out to editors who make substantial contributions to articles in their specific field. A template is available for awarding a barnstar to users, more information about it is available at WikiProject France/Barnstar.
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Resources
Resources
Categories
- List of all subpages of this page
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Projects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject European Union
- Wikipedia:WikiProject French départements (completed)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Paris Streets
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/French cinema task force
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/French military history task force
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Balzac
- Wikipedia:WikiProject French dialects
Portals
- Portal:European Union
- Portal:France
- Portal:French and Francophone literature
- Portal:Military history of France
- Portal:Paris
Every member should feel free to inform the managers of these portals if they have worked on an article which they believe would be of interest to the above portals.
External links
Directories
- Encyclopaedia Britannica - France's country page
- CIA - The World Factbook
- Official site of the French public service - Contains many links to various administrations and institutions
- Parks in France - National parks, nature parks, reserves and other protected areas in France
Tourism, history, gastronomy
- (French) The picturesque France
Maps and travel guides
Photos
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